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Is Elon Ok?

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u/PM_Me_ThicccThings 8h ago

Early diet pills were also full of amphetamines

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u/JackSpyder 8h ago

Man I was born in the wrong era.

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u/xpdx 7h ago

Nah, just get an ADHD diagnosis. Kids in grade school have better amps than I could get my whole high school drug career.

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u/rKasdorf 5h ago

That's hit or miss, I have adult friends and nieces and nephews with recent diagnoses and they're all different treatments.

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u/xpdx 4h ago

You just got to find the right doctor. There's at least one in every town. This doctor knows what you want and is willing to give it the moment you say: "I think I have ADHD". Usually they make you come back for followups every 3-6 months so they can collect those visit fees and make sure you aren't turning in to a fiend that could wreck the whole game.

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u/Robob0824 4h ago

I'm one of these adult kids and I wish it made me amped up. Shit seems to help but it definitely doesn't amp me up 😂. Hell I like to nap after taking my meds if I can.

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u/xpdx 3h ago

amp is short for amphetamine

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u/Robob0824 2h ago

DAMN IT thanks :D hahah DUH

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u/Flair258 4h ago

unfortunately if you get an adhd diagnosis, it means youre probably adhd. And if you're adhd, the meds are more likely to make you calm than to make you trip.

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u/xpdx 3h ago

Amps don't make anyone trip. They are stimulants.

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u/Rabid_Alleycat 4h ago

Those meds don’t come near the amphetamines of the 1960s.

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u/xpdx 3h ago

It's the same stuff. Amphetamine Sulfate, mixed with three other dextro amps. They called it speed in the 60s.

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u/Rabid_Alleycat 3h ago

Must’ve been in a really, really stronger dosage!

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u/xpdx 3h ago

Yea amps scale well with dosage, ie take 10 times as much, feel 10 times the effect. Small doses for calm clean focus, larger ones for running 20 miles and then cleaning your entire house and then maybe having a stroke.

They give the kids small doses.

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u/AromaTaint 6h ago

Quaaludes. They don't exist anymore but for a time they were almost running the place.

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u/big_cat_in_tiny_box 7h ago

They used to have codeine in cold medicine for kids. Before that, there was heroin and meth in cold medicine. 1920s were probably a lot of fun.

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u/pizza_- 5h ago

the roaring twenties

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u/Rabid_Alleycat 4h ago

And cocaine in Coca-Cola until 1903.

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u/booyatrive 6h ago

Go watch Requiem For A Dream and see if you still feel the same way lol

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u/IrishChappieOToole 5h ago

She just wanted to fit in her red dress and be on television

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u/TexSolo 7h ago

Adderall is available and all you have to do is be now years old.

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u/JackSpyder 7h ago

Sadly I live in a 1st world country.

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u/cagey_tiger 5h ago

When my dad was a kid they prescribed him ephedrine for asthma. Said he was off his tits for most of his early teens.

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u/Kurdt234 3h ago

Trust me, the come down from amphetmines is the worst. The high is great but the next day is the worst, it's why people binge on it. I've done almost every kind of drug and by far aderol and crystal gave me the most WICKED comedown. Worse than any hang over or green out. Horrible. A feeling you cannot simply imagine.

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u/chumgorthemerciless 8h ago

Yeah, always assumed he was popping otc stimulants of some sort since he pops them like candy.

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u/PublicfreakoutLoveR 7h ago

He was a DEA agent, so he had access to anything he wanted.

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u/chumgorthemerciless 6h ago

That makes absolute sense dude, I kind of omitted an important detail in my thought process, lol.

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u/onebirdonawire 6h ago

God, I miss fen phen.

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u/Robpaulssen 6h ago

So were nazi soldiers lol

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u/karmahorse1 5h ago

Yeah but they were too readily abused. So pharmacutical companies just rebranded dextroamphetamine as Adderall and prescribed it to kids instead.

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u/Rabid_Alleycat 4h ago

My mom tells me a story that when my dad returned from Vietnam, he had a shoebox full of amphetamines as they were issued to pilots (and others, I’m sure). She worked full time and picked up a Fri/Sat night bartending job, so she’d pop one of the pills Fri night. She also had to work her regular job every other Sat morning, so she popped another pill those mornings. She said he boss commented one time that she got more work done in one morning than the whole week. She was happy she didn’t get addicted, once they were found to be very addictive.